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by drcube 13y ago
The physical thing isn't the music. It's just a vehicle. A package.
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by drcube 13y ago
And what are these "statistics" based on? Self reported survey data, aka "anecdotes".
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by drcube 13y ago
So why weren't those sensors and alarms mandated, as opposed to a redundant and distracting in-car CCTV system?
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by drcube 13y ago
There are plenty of jobs where you're technically always on call. Firefighters, paramedics, doctors, soldiers, etc. What stops employers from simply informing their employees that, from now on, they are all on call 24 hours a day?
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by drcube 13y ago
It's good at preventing use as well. Because manufacturers and shop owners want you to buy it, but they could care less if you ever use it. Make the bastards come up with a better solution.
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by drcube 13y ago
Violence. Guns. These are the threats behind every piece of legislation. Comply, or we'll send the goons with guns to make you comply. That most people go ahead and comply without making the government resort to using violence doesn&
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by drcube 13y ago
It would also be great if people would refuse to buy items with anti-consumer clamshell packaging. That stuff is a waste in addition to being a huge annoyance. Let's kill two birds with one stone!
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by drcube 13y ago
They learn more about computers by using them. That was, I thought, the point. This whole "teach math, science, history, literature, etc. -- but better because COMPUTERS" crap was always overblown, in my opinion. I supported OLP
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by drcube 13y ago
Re: Patronage. You're aware artists get ~$0 from streaming services right? Huge names like Radiohead make maybe $100/month from Spotify and the like. Unless you're huge, you're probably getting pennies, if that. Buy the
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by drcube 13y ago
> Don't want ads? Pay for your product! So that's why there are no ads on cable TV, in magazines or newspapers?
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by drcube 13y ago
Almost every time based graph goes up and to the right. Big whoop. Maybe the internet causes gluten intolerance? Or maybe Roundup caused the rise of social networking?
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by drcube 13y ago
Use a package manager.
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by drcube 13y ago
Try motivating art students to paint fences. And never show them any "art" except different colored fences. That's what this article is about. If you teach real math, you can actually motivate people to want to learn it.
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by drcube 13y ago
The point is not that they can avoid using Time Warner's infrastructure, it's that Time Warner will eventually stop offering content if nobody wants to view it. Then they will have no more incentive to throttle third party content
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by drcube 13y ago
They can serve their own content while boycotting Time Warner's.
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by drcube 13y ago
Well, for the most part they're like lawyers: you only need them around for shitty situations, so that's what they're remembered for. I'm not saying all cops are bad people (though almost all police forces are bad instit
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by drcube 13y ago
Really? Who has pleasant experiences with cops besides other cops? Honest question.
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by drcube 13y ago
Periods are not optional in readable English. Period. The rest, spelling, capitalization, are all there for the same reason -- readability. Seeing an unpunctuated piece of writing doesn't make me think "Gee, good thing they'r
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by drcube 13y ago
I wasn't trying to offend. In my experience, the kids who didn't read enough tended to think proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation weren't important, even in the days before texting and IMs. As they grew up and bega
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by drcube 13y ago
It's an British thing, in my understanding. I've never heard an American say it, but I see it in English literature all the time. I can only assume it's a regular, everyday word there.
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by drcube 13y ago
This is not even close to true among my peer group -- 20- and 30-something, middle class, educated Midwesterners. Nor is it true on any of the message boards I frequent online. So this may be an interesting anthropological datum about some
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by drcube 13y ago
No, it isn't. It's illegal to sell it across state lines, or in some places to the general public. But in most states, you can buy it at a farm, or other licensed facility. It isn't like heroin, or even pot, and you won'
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by drcube 13y ago
The measure of a good janitorial staff should be a successful company.
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by drcube 13y ago
I agree, but phones get sold. I've bought every smartphone I've ever owned off of ebay or craigslist. How would I know the previous owner didn't retain the power to kill my phone? Or the carrier/manufacturer for that mat
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by drcube 13y ago
What happens when you pick a town with a good ISP, which then gets bought by GiantEvilCo a month after you move in? I don't think voting with your feet and mortgages is a solution. Perhaps forgoing entirely? When Charter dicked me arou
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by drcube 13y ago
Why do you think Steve Jobs would have wanted to sell Apple computers with Linux pre-installed? That seems like the exact opposite of what Steve would have wanted, and what he actually did.
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by drcube 13y ago
I got both at the same time, in fall 2005. I guess I'm a late adopter, but I remember having to be invited to Gmail. Facebook I just heard about from another friend in college around the same time.
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by drcube 13y ago
You're confounding issues here. RMS is in the position of a critic of the US government, rightly claiming that, while your country is "free", it installs and supports dictatorships all over the world. It is possible to be unf
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by drcube 13y ago
Do you even know who Richard Stallman is?
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by drcube 13y ago
Open source and Free software are essentially equivalent when it comes to licensing. The difference is in their motivation. So when RMS says that, he's saying Clang/LLVM opened up the source code in order help their software perfo

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